Nutanix API

Retrive Nutanix VM List using API

Webconsole and communication server setup

You can install the plugin using the classic way of installing OCS Plugins :

• https://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/10.Plugin-engine/Using-plugins-installer/

Install the agent file

The rest API call are made trough an Unix Agent, thus a specific module need to be installed in one of your OCS agent.

You will have to put the agent file (in the agent folder of the plugin release) in the Modules directory. It can be found here for most of the systems : /usr/local/share/perl/5.26.1/Ocsinventory/Agent/Modules/

Then edit your modules.conf file present in /etc/ocsinventory-agent/ or /etc/ocsinventory if you installed using the RPM packages and add the following line :

• use Ocsinventory::Agent::Modules::Nutanixapi;

Configure the agent file

Now, you need to configure the agent to scan your Nutanix server.

In the Nutanixapi.pm file from line 19 to 24, you will find the following code :

my @auth_hashes = (
    {
       URL  => "http://an_awesome_nutanix_srv:9440/",  # http://an_awesome_nutanix_srv:9440/
       AUTH_DIG     => "BASIC_AUTH_TOKEN", # See HTTP Basic auth
    },
);

Replace the URL by your nutanix server URL and set the Basic auth token to communicate with the API in the BASIC_AUTH_TOKEN string.

Note : Multiples servers can be added (like VMWare implementation)